Mexico reels in wake of deadly resort shooting

Tuesday, 17 January 2017 1:49 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 17 January 2017 1:50 AM ]

People remain in the street outside the Blue Parrot nightclub as firefighters and police agents patrol the area in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Ro state, Mexico where 5 people were killed, three of them foreigners, during a music festival on January 16, 2017.(Photo by AFP)

Alasdair Baverstock
Press TV, Mexico City

A shooting in a Mexican holiday resort has left a number of tourists dead, in what experts are saying was a gangland execution gone awry. The place where the massacre took place plays host to yet another cartel-related tragedy, as Alasdair Baverstock reports from Mexico.

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